First, let's state the obvious: Do we love the traffic that a link from the Digg.com front page brings into Lifehacker? Of course we do! We'd be in the wrong line of work if we didn't. But we enjoy Digg traffic with clean noses and clear consciences. Our official Digg stance (which has been in effect for the last year or so), in bullets:

The Lifehacker editors do not submit our own posts to Digg.com. There was a time - almost a year ago - when we did digg a few of our own posts, but we've since seen the light. We don't do that any more, and we won't ever again.

We don't ask other people to digg Lifehacker posts for us. (Update: Meaning, we don't email our friends and co-workers and distant cousins, asking them specifically to digg posts.) There are a few Digg users who are avid Lifehacker readers and digg many of our posts - hi mklopez! - but they are not affiliated with Lifehacker in any way.

Every post here on Lifehacker has a teensy-weensy digg button at the bottom to make life easier for Digg users. However, we ONLY place the big yellow Digg badge on our exclusive, original content - specifically, our daily feature article or Lifehacker Code software releases.Update, January 2008: Our publishing system now automatically places the yellow digg badge on all posts that have more than 30 diggs already. We only manually place digg badges with less than 30 diggs on original content posts only.

We will not place a yellow badge on posts that point elsewhere. That doesn't make sense. Digg the original source. Digg spam does suck.